Posted on 17-10-2002
Time
Travel Companions
By Alan Marston
The first observation of the self-conscious mind is that the
future never
looks like the past, actually, that's the very essence of the
concept
humans use to frame existence, it's called time. Yet this essence
of
essences escapes the conceptual framework of almost all politicians
and
almost all the people they purport to represent, and every individual
pays
for that huge blind spot, many with their lives.
Unlike millions of species war has never been extinguished,
unlike millions
of species war has evolved fast enough to maintain a constant
presence,
unlike millions of species war has gone global. Whether the
modern
individual accepts it or not, to the extent we each have bought
into the
western way we have sought the company of its shadowy fellow
travellors,
Envy, Greed, Fear and Hate. Envy and Greed are having a hard
time of it at
the moment after flourishing in the 90's, now its Fear and Hate's
turn to
step into the media spotlight, and what a spotlight that is!
Expect to see
Fear and Hate in nausea generating hand-held detail on your
TV screens and
speaking in mind-numbing interviews on radio.
Here we go again, but never like the last time (which for me
was the
Vietnam War). It's different, but it's still war, its still
lives cut short
on the sacrificial altar of commercial and political power.
The sages are
consistent in their advice, know oneself, travel not with Envy
nor Greed
nor Fear nor Hate.
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